My God and My Country

The First Epistle of the Apostle Paul to Timothy

Chapter 1:13

13 When before I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an oppressor: but I was received to mercy: for I did it ignorantly through unbelief.

Herein Paul speaks upon his previous life, for as he had stated he was chief among sinners. Attacking the church, the body of Christ, as unto death. By so doing he was persecuting the Messiah Himself. However, God, demonstrated His infinite mercy and long suffering by taking this chief and making Him a man after His Own heart.

This writer is consistently amazed by such a transformation, and reflects upon it as to how it relates to himself. For if Paul a man whose zeal for persecution could be forgiven and used by God why not others including this writer.